I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail..

Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and e….

Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat..

A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn't have been more surprised and pleased..

I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire..

My knees could have been stirred with a spoon..

Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me..

the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind..

... it takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred..

A society struggles to fulfill its best instincts, even as an individual does, and generally makes just as hard going of it. The fight against prejud….

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner..

Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up..

prejudice will always exist. So will sickness and disease, but that scarcely seems sufficient reason for telling our medical scientists to put on the….

Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pi….

I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a ….

The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love..

Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced..

Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any..

it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give..

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity..

The only men who can turn my blood stream into a condition resembling heavy surf are good-looking heels with characters as intricately unpleasant as ….